The hapless Nymph with wonder saw:A whisker first and then a claw,...With many an ardent wish,She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize.What female heart can gold despise?What Cat's averse to fish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and intheir death they were not divided: they were swifter than e...agles, they were stronger than lions.Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet,with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the labor interests, an...d the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as be...tween a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be servic...eable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Money indeed may be considered as the most universal and expressive of all languages. For gold and silver coins are no more money ...when not in the actual process of being voluntarily used in purchase, than words not so in use are language. Pounds, shillings, and pence are recognized covenanted tokens, the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual purchasing power, but till in actual use they are only potential money, as the symbols of language, whatever they may be, are only potential language till they are passing between two minds. It is the power and will to apply the symbols that alone gives life to money, and as long as they are in abeyance, the money is in abeyance also; the coins may be safe in one's pocket, but they are as dead as a log till they begin to burn in it, and so are our words till they begin to burn within us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »